THIS WEEK: In 1873, the first Comstock Law passed, banning the mailing of immoral material and prompting publishers to find out just how much they could get away with.
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- Ranking professions most conducive to crime fighting. Featuring author, clergy, and lifeguard. | AV Club
- A new true crime magazine by and for women. | Vice
- 50 years of reading mysteries, with Patricia Abbott. | Criminal Element
- “That’s just, like, your opinion, man.” Confronting the critics who panned The Big Lebowski 20 years ago. | The Washington Post
- Laura Lippman delves into the transgressive noir of James M. Cain. | CrimeReads
- Celebrating the original ladies of crime with Sarah Weinman. | CrimeReads
- Gillian Flynn on savoring dread, and why her DNA is all over New York City’s streetcorners. | Chicago Magazine
- How should we measure feminism in crime fiction? | CrimeReads
- Jon Lee Anderson visits Medellín to find out how the city is dealing with Pablo Escobar’s strange posthumous celebrity. | The New Yorker
- The high-security prison that inspired Lars Kepler’s Nordic Noir. | Crime By The Book.
- How Jim Crow stories led Jason Overstreet to spy fiction. | CrimeReads
- There’s nothing like a good crime lede: “A Brooklyn femme fatale with a deadly past was busted for poisoning a look-alike friend with a tainted piece of cheesecake…” | New York Daily News
- Korean thrillers are about to become an international phenomenon. In their homeland, they’re still second-class citizens. | The Guardian
- Walter Mosley on the power of money and why TV can never replace good novels. | The Big Thrill
- Ausma Zehanat Khan fights injustice, on and off the page. | CrimeReads
- Why America’s spy agencies are investing in Silicon Valley startups. (Hint: it’s to learn how to predict the future.) | Literary Hub
- Tess Gerritsen and Lisa Gardiner talk kidnappings, family dynamics, and the women taking over thrillers. | Los Angeles Review of Books
